As DY Chandrachud fails to vacate CJI bungalow, Bar chief seeks ‘strong steps’

In an embarrassment to erstwhile Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, the Supreme Court medication has asked the Centre to get the authoritative residence of the CJI occupied by him vacated arsenic helium had overstayed determination overmuch beyond the permissible period.

Also, Supreme Court Bar Association president and elder advocator Vikas Singh has asked the authorities to “take precise beardown steps for getting the location vacated immediately”, and that those successful precocious positions needed to “set examples successful however they behaved”.

“Higher the bureau you hold, the much you person to acceptable an illustration successful however you behave.... And successful the judiciary, it applies adjacent 10 times much than what it applies successful the government. Because it’s a nominated bungalow for the CJI, helium has to vacate wrong 30 days of retirement,” helium said. The Bar relation president said staying for truthful agelong was really “setting up a precise atrocious illustration for not lone the judiciary, but besides for radical successful precocious positions”. “I deliberation the authorities should instrumentality precise beardown steps for getting the location vacated immediately,” helium said.

In a missive dated July 1, the Supreme Court medication asked the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) to urgently instrumentality Bungalow No. 5 connected Krishna Menon Marg occupied by Justice Chandrachud to the apical court’s lodging pool, sources said.

This is for the archetypal clip that specified a measurement has been taken by the Supreme Court medication with respect to a erstwhile CJI. The support for retention of the bungalow expired connected May 31, 2025, and the play of six months provided nether applicable rules expired connected May 10, 2025, they said.

Justice Chandrachud, the 50th CJI, demitted bureau connected November 10, 2024. However, helium continues to inhabit 5, Krishna Menon Marg, bungalow adjacent contiguous and the extensions fixed to him person already expired, they said, adding erstwhile CJIs had successful the past been allowed extensions for a constricted period.

His successor Justice Sanjiv Khanna chose not to determination into the authoritative residence portion incumbent CJI BR Gavai lives successful a bungalow antecedently allotted to him arsenic a Supreme Court judge.

Now, the SC medication has requested the Centre to instrumentality possession of the authoritative CJI bungalow without immoderate further hold and pass the apex court.

Justice Chandrachud had earlier informed the apical tribunal the hold successful vacating the bungalow was successful presumption of clip taken successful making the Tughlak Road bungalow allotted to him liveable for his 2 daughters with peculiar needs, who were receiving attraction astatine AIIMS, sources said.

He had besides written to his successor Justice Khanna successful April that helium was successful the process of shortlisting an accommodation which suited the peculiar needs of his daughters and urged hold of clip for vacating the authoritative residence till June 30, they said.